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April 1, 2009
Many killed in 'US drone attack'
BBC News

Pakistani Taliban threatens attack on White House
The Philippine Star

Netanyahu to Obama: Stop Iran — Or I Will
Jeffrey Goldberg
The Atlantic

Justice Dept. Seeks To Void Stevens' Conviction
Nina Totenberg
NPR

US, Russia reopening nuclear arms talks
Christi Parsons and Mark Silva
The Swamp

Secret US Forces Carried Out Assassinations in a Dozen Countries, Including in Latin America

Seymour Hersh
Democracy Now!

DOJ Watchdog "Revising" Critical Report on John Yoo's Legal Work on Torture
Jason Leopold
TruthOut

Obama's Gordon Gekko Targets Union Workers
David Sirota
Our Future

"We the People" to "King of the World": "YOU'RE FIRED!"

Michael Moore

Ruling further diminishes Coleman’s election contest prospects
Paul Demko
The Minnesota Independent

IJust Called To Say I Own You
Daniel Stacey
Slate

April 2, 2009
G20 forgets the environment
George Monbiot
The Guardian

London Calling

Maria Margaronis
The Nation

Obama Weighing More Troops for Afghan War
Common Dreams

Detention at Afghan Base Is Subject to U.S. Courts
Charlie Savage
The New York Times

Venezuelan offer for Guantanamo

BBC News

Calling the US Bankrupt is Insulting
Jay Barr
Antiwar.com

China secures Myanmar energy route

Sudha Ramachandran
Asia Times

Goldman Vet Sparks Conflict On Hill

American News Project
Video Clip of the Day

Something is Rotten at PBS

Russell Mokhiber
CounterPunch

House Approves FDA Oversight of Tobacco
Tim Dickinson
Rolling Stone

Have the tobacco police gone too far?

David Robson
New Scientist

What does one TRILLION dollars look like?
Page Tutor

Prosecutorial Discretion
Josh Marshall
TPM
 

April 3-5, 2009
Here's news:
G-20 summit actually achieved something
Kevin G. Hall and Steven Thomma
McClatchy Newspapers

Pulp Nonfiction
Christopher Hayes
The Nation

'Torture Memo' May Finally Go Public
Jason Leopold
Consortium News

Seized U.S. journalists become 'hostages' in N. Korea crisis
Tim Johnson
McClatchy Newspapers

Paper Money
Daniel Gross
Slate

Most Arctic Sea Ice Could Melt In 30 Years
CBS News

Labor Department official analyzes unemployment numbers
Denver Business Journal

Congress Approves Budget
Lori Montgomery
The Washington Post

Iowa Court Says Gay Marriage Ban Unconstitutional
KCCI

As Crisis Loomed, Geithner Pressed But Fell Short

Robert O'Harrow Jr. and Jeff Gerth
The Washington Post

Where’s the Financial Transparency Obama Promised?
Ken Silverstein
Harper’s

Kenyan lions being poisoned by pesticides'
Daniel Howden
The Independent

Marijuana Stops Tumor Growth
NBC 33

Former Illinois Gov. Blagojevich indicted
Aaron Blake
The Hill


April 6, 2009
Ice bridge ruptures in Antarctic
BBC News

Barack Obama goes ahead with missile defence shield despite disarmament pledg
e
Toby Harnden and Bruno Waterfield
The Telegraph

Following Bush lead, Obama moves to block challenge to wiretapping program
John Byrne
The Raw Story

Obama continues Bush’s border fence policies

Mike Lillis
The Minnesota Independent

Obama the Visionary: End Nukes, admit Turkey to EU

Juan Cole
Informed Comment

Obama wavers on pledge to declare Armenian genocide
Paul Richter
Los Angeles Times

Obama: America Seeks a 'World Without Nuclear Weapons' But…
John Nichols
The Nation

Are Republicans Blackmailing Obama?
Scott Horton
The Daily Beast

Thousands flee bomb attacks by US drones

Daud Khattakin and Christina Lamb
The Times

U.N. Security Council fails to agree on North Korea reaction
Paul Richter and Geraldine Baum
Los Angeles Times

North Korean Media Is Hilarious
Wonkette

The Quiet Coup
Simon Johnson
The Atlantic

Strange Days
Jim Kunstler
Clusterfuck Nation

The Compensation Kings

Rolling Stone

Bug eats electricity, farts biogas
Michael Marshall
New Scientist


April 7, 2009
Judge: U.S. with
held evidence of Guantanamo witness's mental illness
Marisa Taylor
McClatchy Newspapers

Can U.S. Courts Free Innocent Gitmo Prisoners?
Daphne Eviatar
The Washington Independent

Obama Administration quietly expands Bush's legal defense of wiretapping program
John Byrne
The Raw Story

Fujimori gets lengthy jail term
BBC News

Gates Pushes for Radical Overhaul of Pentagon Arsenal
Noah Shachtman
Wired

More Drone Attacks in Pakistan Planned
Eric Schmitt and Christopher Drew
The New York Times

Vermont becomes 4th state to allow gay marriage

Jason Szep
Reuters

Crop-destroying moth lands in northern part of California's central valley

Carol Reiter
Merced Sun-Star

RBS plans to cut up to 9,000 jobs
The Independent

Credit Card Industry Defeated for Now
American News Project
Video Clip of the Day

Washington Post reporters take unprecedented step of contradicting columnist George Will in a news article
Climate Progress


April 8, 2009
Bush's CIA Suspected of More Torture
Jason Leopold

Consortium News

Electricity Grid in U.S. Penetrated By Spies
Siobhan Gorman
The Wall Street Journal

New nuclear talks offer for Iran

BBC News

Putting Today's 'Pirate' Attack in Context
Jeremy Scahill
Rebel Reports

Ballot Review Gives Franken Solid Advantage
Emily Cadei
CQ Politics

Is it Already too Late for the Truth?
Steve Benen
The Washington Monthly

Construction Joblessness at 21%
Cody Lyon
Globe St.

Obama to host Seder Thursday night
Hilary Leila Krieger
The Jerusalem Post

Drunken Nation: Russia’s Depopulation Bomb
Nicholas Eberstadt
World Affairs


April 9, 2009
Obama climate adviser open to geo-engin
eering to tackle global warming
Alok Jha
The Guardian

US to attend group nuclear talks with Iran
Matthew Lee
AP

Somali pirates defy US navy by holding American captain hostage
Mike Pflanz
Telegraph

Holder Begins Justice Revamp

Carrie Johnson
The Washington Post

Glenn Beck and the rise of Fox News' militia media
Eric Boehlert
Media Matters

Shell faces Saro-Wiwa death claim
Matthew Green
Financial Times

More States Look to Raise Taxes
Leslie Eaton
The Wall Street Journal

Just 53% Say Capitalism Better Than Socialism

Rasmussen Reports

Blogger Gets 10 Years for Insulting Thai Monarchy

Marwaan Macan-Markar
IPS

Constitutional Scholar Ignores Constitution

Foiled Goil
Big Brass Blog

Gay Marriage Leads To Mass Murder?
David Corn
Mother Jones

Pentagon preps for economic warfare
Eamon Javers
Politico

Tiny Flower Turns Pig Poop into Fuel

Brandon Keim
Wired

What’s in a Name
Steve Benen
The Washington Monthly


April 10-12, 2009
Hope Abandoned
Chris Floyd
CounterPunch

CIA to close secret overseas prisons, end
security contracts
Jonathan S. Landay
McClatchy Newspapers

Water crisis rocks LA, Mexico City; who's next?
Martin Seiff
UPI

US court allows apartheid cases
Al Jazeera

Capture Pirates, on Land and Sea
The New York Times

Roe vs. Rove
Steve Benen
The Washington Monthly

The Official End of Obama’s Honeymoon

Matt Taibbi
True / Slant

First lady's organic garden concerns chemical firms
Jim Snyder
The Hill

 

  April 13, 2009
Decision
to fire on pirates came quickly after 5-day standoff
Shashank Bengali and Nancy A. Youssef
McClatchy Newspapers

You are being lied to about pirates
Johann Hari
The Independent

Will Obama Prosecute the Somali Pirate in a US Court?

Jeremy Scahill
CounterPunch

GM Prepares for 'Surgical' Bankruptcy
Fox News

Will Israel Attack Iran?
Roane Carey
Tom Dispatch

Targeted killing of women's rights activist shocks Afghans
Jessica Leeder
Globe and Mail

Consumption Dwarfs Population As Main Environmental Threat
Fred Pearce
E360

Obama to allow travel, money transfers to Cuba
Jennifer Loven
TPM

ASU: Where winning a World Series is a greater achievement than becoming 44th president
Will Bunch
Attytood

Clarence Thomas Sees Too Many Rights
Steve Benen
The Washington Monthly

The Coming Siege of Austerity
Jim Kunstler
Clusterfuck Nation

Men's Underwear Sales, Greenspan's Economic Metric, Reveal Crisis
Sam Stein
The Huffington Post
 

April 14, 2009
The Bush Six to Be Indicted
Scott Horton
The Daily Beast

N.Korea 'orders nuclear monitors to go'
The Independe
nt

Gazprom: A Russian Invasion?

iStockAnalyst

Russia confirms drones deal with Israel

M&C

What Turkey Can Teach

Parag Khanna
Slate

More CEOs got pay hikes than cuts in '08
Kim Dixon
Yahoo! News

Journalist goes on trial in Iran
BBC News

Vatican vetoes Barack Obama's nominees for US ambassador

Chris McGreal
The Guardian

Drug Decriminalization in Portugal
Reason
Video Clip of the Day

DHS Report: After Obama’s Election, Right-Wing Extremists ‘May Be Gaining New Recruits’
Think Progress

Don't Chase the Pirates
Matthew Yglesias
The Daily Beast

There's a right way and a wrong way to combat right wing violence

Will Bunch
Attytood


April 15, 2009
Chalabi charges Bush with conspiring with Iran
Foreign Policy

The peasant mentality lives on in America
Matt Taibbi
The Smirking Chimp

Somalia's Coast Guard?

Bruce Thompson
The American Thinker

Tea Parties Forever
Paul Krugman
The New York Times

Wall Street Sharks Circle the UAW
John R. MacArthur
Harper’s

Endgame for Gramm?

Robert Scheer
TruthDig

Needing cash, California asks federal government to back loans
Steve Wiegand
The Sacramento Bee

Valley fever blowin’ on a hotter wind
Janice Arenofsky
The Daily Climate

Fiat CEO Talks Tough With Chrysler
Javier Espinoza
Forbes

Elizabeth Warren Introduces COP's April Report
Video Clip of the Day

Why teenagers are moody, scientists find the answer
The Telegraph

Good Worlds and Bad
Rose Fox
Publishers Weekly

Blagojevich in Tentative Deal to Appear on NBC Reality Show
Bill Carter
The New York Times


April 16, 2009
Bush Torture Memos Released By Obama: See
The Complete Documents
The Huffington Post

No charges against CIA officials for waterboarding

Jennifer Loven and Devlin Barrett
Yahoo! News

New Hope for the Bush Six

Scott Horton
The Daily Beast

NSA Tried To Wiretap Member of Congress

Zachary Roth
TPM

Oil Über Alles
Ken Silverstein
Harper’s

Iraq air raids hit mostly women and children
Kim Sengupta
The Independent

Across the United States, Waters in Crisis
Common Dreams

Obama lays out ambitious high-speed rail plan
Joseph Romm
Climate Progress

Another Ethanol Producer Goes Bust

Robert Bryce
CounterPunch

Bush's Hypocrisy on War Crimes
Jason Leopold
Consortium News

Jon Stewart shines bright light on where our TARP bailout money is going
Chad Rubel
Buzzflash

Gov. Rick Perry: Texas Could Secede, Leave Union
The Huffington Post

Journalism's confession: Playing Twister...to the right
Will Bunch
Attytood

Caffeine Reduces Pain During Exercise, Study Shows
Science Daily

Teabagging Michelle Malkin
Matt Taibbi
The Smirking Chimp

What Real Protest Looks Like
Paradox
The Left Coaster

Beer, Chips, and Terrorism To Go.
Media Assasin


April 17, 2009
New EPA Greenhouse Initiative Addresses
Ocean Acidification
Energy Daily
Chris Holly

EPA takes first step toward climate change regs

Josef Hebert
TPM

The significance of Obama's decision to release the torture memos
Glenn Greenwald
Salon

How Bush's Tortured Legal Logic Won
Robert Parry
Consortium News

Interrogation Memos Detail Harsh Tactics by the CIA
Mark Mazzetti and Scott Shane
Common Dreams

The Greedsters Are Back!
Ralph Nader
CounterPunch

Up, Up and Away: The West’s Hysterical Reaction to North Korea
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Scott Ritter
TruthDig

U.S. experts: Pakistan on course to become Islamist state

Jonathan S. Landay
McClatchy Newspapers

1,500 farmers commit mass suicide in India
The Independent

Injured War Zone Contractors Fight to Get Care From AIG and Other Insurers
T. Christian Miller and Doug Smith
ProPublica

Tax Tea Party Time, Part Two
Bruce Bartlett
Forbes


April 20, 2009
CIA waterboarded al-Qaida suspects 266 times
Matthew Weaver
The Guardian


Sources: Wiretap Recorded Rep. Harman Promising to Intervene for AIPAC

Jeff Stein
CQ

Emanuel Rejects Trial for Memos' Authors
R. Jeffrey Smith
The Washington Post

Tons of released drugs taint U.S. water
Jeff Donn, Martha Mendoza And Justin Pritchard
Salt Lake Tribune

Walkout at Iran leader's speech
BBC News

The Torturers’ Manifesto

The New York Times

Bank of America profit rises, credit quality sours
Jonathan Stempel
Reuters

General Motors will lay off 1,600 salaried employees
Baltimore Business Journal

Former MADD chief will steer NHTSA wrong

Eric Peters
Detroit Free Press

House GOP leader Boehner on ABC: “The idea that carbon dioxide is a carcinogen that is harmful to our environment is almost comical.”
Joseph Romm
Climate Progress

Hurricane-Killing, Space-Based Power Plant
Alexis Madrigal
Wired

Obama to take aim at credit card abuses
Caren Bohan
Reuters

Obama Goes to Summit, Gets a Galeano Book... and Detente
John Nichols
The Nation

Aryan Nations: Obama recruiting tool
UPI


April 21, 2009
Senior Bush figures could be prosecuted for torture, says Obama
Ewen MacAskill and Robert Booth
The Guardian

Confirmed: Rep. Jane Harman Tried to Kill NSA Wiretapping Story - May Have Swayed 2004 Election
John Byrne
AlterNet

Bush-Era Rule Grants FBI Unprecedented Investigative Powers

Daphne Eviatar
The Washington Independent

Obama gets euphoric CIA welcome
Channel News Asia

Somali 'pirate' appears in court
BBC News

Obama invites Middle East heads

BBC News

Russia accuses US on missile shield
Channel News Asia

Pull Out of Iraq This Year

George McGovern
CounterPunch

Citizens can challenge state, local gun laws
Bob Egelko
San Francisco Chronicle

Gavin Newsom Is Running For Governor Of Twitterfornia

Wonkette

Victorian diseases: Back from the dead
The Independent

  April 22, 2009
The Taliban's Nuclear Threat
Gerald Posner
The Daily B
east

Senate panel: Military agency had hand in developing CIA interrogation methods

Julian E. Barnes
The Chicago Tribune

Declassified Report: Bush Admin Solicited Torture 'Wish List,' Ordered 'Communist' Tactics
Stephen Webster and Diane Sweet
AlterNet

Torturing The Al Qaeda-Iraq Connection
Think Progress

No one expected the Spanish inquisition
Will Bunch
Attytood

Supreme Court strikes a blow for the Fourth Amendment
Stephen C. Webster
The Raw Story

'Deeper' recession ahead says IMF
Steve Schifferes
BBC News

Freddie Mac Official Dead in Apparent Suicide
Tom Jackman and Jonathan Mummolo
The Washington Post

Thievery Under the TARP
Robert Scheer
TruthDig

Germans in groundbreaking Turkmen deal
Vladimir Socor
Asia Times

ABC intentionally misleads viewers, claiming RFK called Obama an ‘Indentured Servant’ to coal industry
Brad Johnson
Climate Progress

President Ahmadinejad's speech at the Durban Review Conference on Racism
Voters for Peace

Bill Kristol Wins Prize
Pareene
Gawker
 

April 23, 2009
Senate report: Rice, Cheney OK'd CIA use of waterboarding
CNN

The Bush Administration's Secret Legal Memos
ACLU

Dozens of Prisoners Held by CIA Still Missing, Fates Unknown
Dafna Linzer
ProPublica

My Tortured Decision
Ali Soufan
The New York Times

Iraqi Gays Face Threat of 'Glued Anuses'
Queerty

Wave of bombings kills up to 70 in Iraq as al-Qaida chief is caught
Martin Chulov
The Guardian

GM to shut most US plants up to 9 weeks
Tom Krisher
Yahoo! News

Freddie Mac Disclosures To Investors Examined
Zachary A. Goldfarb and Jerry Markon
The Washington Post

Official: FDA to OK Plan B for 17-year-olds
Ricardo Alonso-Zaldivar
My Way

Cheney's Right: Release Everything
John Nichols
The Nation

The Bailout Is a Fraud That Could Bring Down Obama
Ruth Conniff
AlterNet

Seal With "Arms" Discovered - Evolution at Work
Brian Handwerk
National Geographic

The rich have gone into hiding...from baseball
Will Bunch
Attytood


April 24-26, 2009
Suicide blasts kill 60 at Baghdad Shiite shrine
Chelsea J . Carter
Burlington Free Press

U.S. to release photos showing alleged abuses by American personnel
Peter Wallsten, Greg Miller and Julian Barnes
Chicago Tribune

Industry Ignored Its Scientists on Climate

Andrew C. Revkin
The New York Times

Swine flu epidemic kills 16 in Mexico City
Jo Tuckman
The Guardian

Obama and the Big Dogs
William Greider
The Nation

Conflict minerals and crimes against humanity in Congo
David Sullivan
Reuters

GM to pull the plug on Pontiac
Peter Valdes-Dapena
CNN

Ford Has Loss of $1.4 Billion, but Beats Forecast

Nick Bunkley
The New York Times

The Ethanol Scammers Rent a General
Robert Bryce
CounterPunch

Minnesota Supremes Set Schedule For Coleman's Appeal - Giving Him More Time
Eric Kleefeld
TPM

China unveils fleet of submarines in bid to build global trust
Tania Branigan
The Guardian

Dear GOP: Waterboarding is Not Bobbing for Freaking Apples
No More Mr. Nice Blog


April 27, 2009
Iraqi premier threatens to prosecute U.S. soldiers after raid
Ernesto Londono an
d Zaid Sabah
Contra Costa Times

US promotes Iran in energy market
M K Bhadrakumar
Asia Times

U.S. toxic-asset plan stirs fears
Ralph Vartabedian and Tom Hamburger
Los Angeles Times

John McCain admits US under George Bush violated the Geneva Convention

John Amato
Crooks and Liars

Myth and Reality About Torture
Scott Horton
The Daily Beast

GM to cut 21,000 US factory jobs, shed Pontiac
Tom Krishner and Kimberly S. Johnson
Yahoo! News

Chrysler wins union concessions

Chris Isidore
CNN

Swine Flu - Republicans STILL Creating Catastrophe
Dave Johnson
Seeing the Forest

The bottom-line you need to know about swine flu
Lauran Neergaard
My Way

Reagan's DOJ Prosecuted Texas Sheriff for Waterboarding Prisoners
Jason Leopold
TruthOut

Officials in Three States Pin Water Woes on Gas Drilling
Abrahm Lustgarten
ProPublica

The missing sunspots: Is this the big chill?
The Independent

The Joker
Jim Kunstler
Clusterfuck Nation


Democrats' 'Battered Wife Syndrome'
Robert Parry
Consortium News


April 28, 2009
Court Rejects
Obama Admin's State Secrets Claim
Zachary Roth
TPM

Specter switching parties, Dems will gain filibuster proof Senate

The Raw Story

More Thoughts on Specter
Christopher Hayes
The Nation

Swine-flu outbreak could be linked to Smithfield factory farms
Tom Philpott
Grist

Torture at Abu Ghraib: "The Man Behind the Hood"
Ali Shalal
Global Research

Britons Cleared Over 7/7 Attacks
Aljazeera
Video Clip of the Day

Nicotine Diminishes Anger Response
Tudor Vieru
InsideTech

Krystian Zimerman's shocking Disney Hall debut
Los Angeles Times

Colbert Study: Conservatives Don't Know He's Joking
Jason Linkins
The Huffington Post

Florida’s New Jesus Christ License Plate
Richard Chemel
BuzzFeed


April 29, 2009
Suit by 5 ex-captives of CIA can proceed, appeals panel rules
Carol J. Williams
Los Angeles Times

Bybee Weighs In
Scott Horton
Harper’s

Senate confirms health secretary nominee
Erica Werner
AP

WHO raises pandemic alert level
BBC News

Regular flu has killed thousands since January
Doug Gross
CNN

The swine flu crisis lays bare the meat industry's monstrous power
Mike Davis
The Guardian

Egypt orders slaughter of all pigs over swine flu
Maamoun Youssef
Daily Record

Confessions of a Terrorist
Terry J. Allen
In These Times

Israel renames unkosher swine flu
BBC News


April 30, 2009
British Forces end combat operations in Iraq
Telegraph


Poppies a Target in Fight Against Taliban
Dexter Filkins
The New York Times

Chrysler Bankruptcy Plan Is Announced
Micheline Matnard
The New York Times

Matthew Shepard Hate Crimes Bill Passes House Vote
Stephan Horbelt
Gaywired

Mexico arrests 'drug gang boss'
BBC News

Prosecution of Bush Six Back On
Scott Horton
The Daily Beast

A Panic Stoked in Order to Posture and Spend
Simon Jenkins
Information Clearing House

Scientists see this flu strain as relatively mild

Karen Kaplan and Alan Zarembo
Los Angeles Times

An End to Crack/Powder Cocaine Sentencing Disparity?
Jasmine Tyler and Anthony Papa
CounterPunch

It Just Doesn't Matter
William Rivers Pitt
TruthOut

Bank of America's Lewis Removed as Chairman
Martin H. Bosworth
ConsumerAffairs.com

The Exaflood Myth Just Won't Die
Karl Bode
Broadband

Candidate for Georgia governorship says he’d kill his own son to secede

John Byrne
The Raw Story

Final Edition
Stefany Anne Golberg
The Smart Set

 
 
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